Pala Today News – 4/10/26
Written by John Fox on April 10, 2026
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LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWS
Santa Fe Christian Schools in Solana Beach is being accused of secretly recording student athletes in a choir room being used as a locker room for a visiting team during a California Interscholastic Federation sporting event. The attorney representing the three players listed in the complaint said it’s possible there are other sports and hundreds of other students may also be involved in the proposed class action lawsuit. She says recordings were first discovered January 17. https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/north-county-private-school-accused-recording-visiting-student-athletes-locker-room/4008165/?amp=1
Deputies from the Valley Center Crime Suppression Team and Area Investigations Unit serving a search warrant Wednesday morning at 7a in the 15000 Block of Topa Road in Pauma Valley found twelve firearms, hundreds of rounds of various ammunition, and several high-capacity magazines. At least two of the seized firearms were previously reported stolen. Several were illegal due to fully automatic firing capabilities. Additionally, the Department of Animal Services addressed several violations related to an illegal rooster-fighting operation at the property. https://www.valleycenter.com/articles/crime-suppression-team-deputies-serve-warrant-seize-unlawful-firearms/
A San Diego hiker who died while trekking the Pacific Crest Trail near Anza was identified today by the Riverside County Coroner. 43-year old Ian Maclurg was hiking in the Anza area when the 911 call came in yesterday after 11:30a. First responders rushed to the Coyote Canyon Road area near the Pacific Crest Trail California Section B, where Mclurg was last seen. https://patch.com/california/temecula/coroner-ids-pacific-crest-trail-hiker-san-diego-man
The County of San Diego has vacated a slope easement to make way for renovation and expansion of the Pala Mesa commercial center on Old Highway 395. The four and one third-acre property includes Nessy Burger. The proposed development would construct two 6k square foot retail buildings, a nearly 5k square foot convenience store and a 12-pump gas station. The existing parking lot would be expanded. A dedicated left-turn lane would be added to Old 395. Nessy would be unchanged. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2026/04/09/news/county-vacates-old-highway-395-slope-easement/81635.html
The city of Escondido will pay Oceanside-based Hoch Consulting to oversee several upcoming and ongoing capital improvement projects including the Grape Day Park restroom project, Mountain View pickleball courts, traffic signals at Centre City Parkway and Brotherton Road and a pipe rehabilitation project. The company had a similar $2m contract with Escondido two years ago. https://thecoastnews.com/escondido-approves-1-5m-consulting-firm-contract-for-city-projects/
A couple dozen SDG&E customers in San Marcos lost power this morning at about 4:15a due to damaged equipment. Power is expected to be restored by 2p this afternoon. https://outage.sdge.com/
Pala will get two storms over the weekend. Tonight’s might drop as much as a tenth of an inch of rain. The bigger, more likely one Sunday could bring a half inch. The full forecast is coming up. (below)
SPORTS
In the NBA – Yesterday’s winners were Toronto, Chicago, Indiana, New York, Houston and the Lakers over Golden State in San Francisco 119-103. Both LA teams play tonight. The Clippers have three remaining regular season games. The Lakers have two. The play-ins begin Tuesday.
In the NHL – The Kings topped Vancouver 4-1. The Ducks broke their six-game losing streak with a 6-1 rout of the visiting Sharks. Other winners were Buffalo, Montreal, Ottawa, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Winnipeg, Carolina, Dallas, Colorado, Utah, Seattle and the New York Islanders. No games tonight. 15 tomorrow night. The regular season ends Thursday.
In the minors – The San Diego Gulls next game is tonight at Bakersfield.
In Major League Baseball – The Padres beat the visiting Rockies 7-3 in 12 innings thanks to a walk-off grand slam by Xander Bogaerts. Same two teams tonight. Also tonight in LA, the Dodgers open a series hosting the Rangers and the Angels begin a series in Cincinnati.
In the minors – The Lake Elsinore Storm demolished the visiting Rancho Cucamonga Quakes last night, 21-0. Game 4 of 6 is tonight.
In soccer – The Major League Soccer season kicks off tonight with 13 matches including San Diego FC hosting Minnesota United at Snapdragon Stadium. LAFC is at Portland and the Galaxy are in Austin.
In lacrosse – The San Diego Seals next game is Sunday in Duluth, Georgia.
In golf – At the Masters Tournament in Augusta, early in today’s second round, defending champion Rory McIlroy had a one-stoke lead over three other golfers at 6 under par. https://www.espn.com/golf/leaderboard
In racing – NASCAR this Sunday at Bristol Motor Speedway. This week’s scheduled Gulf of Bahrain Formula 1 race has been cancelled.
Local High School Sports –
Bonsall – softball at Julian at 3:15p
Great Oak – JV girls’ beach volleyball at a tournament all day; swimming & diving at Mt. San Antonio College all day today and tomorrow; baseball hosting Chaparral at 3:30p; girls’ lacrosse hosting Poly Riverside at 5:30p
Fallbrook – boys’ varsity volleyball at the Falcon Tournament at 3p today and 8a tomorrow; JV baseball at Vista at 4p; girls’ lacrosse hosting University City at 5:45p; Tomorrow – boys’ JV volleyball at the West Coast Challenge Tournament at 8a
Valley Center – baseball against Ramona at 4p, JV hosting, varsity away
BUSINE$$
As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were mixed. The Dow fell 6 tenths of a percent. The S&P 500 was down almost two tenths. The Nasdaq gained two tenths. Comex gold fell $28.80 to $4,789.20 an ounce. The U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures gained 52 cents, trading at $98.39 a barrel. The international benchmark Brent futures were up 65 cents at $96.57.
The Labor Department’s inflation report shows consumer prices up 3.3% in March, mainly due to the sharp increase in gasoline prices. In February, that annualized figure was 2.4%. The difference of .9% between February and March was the biggest one-month jump in nearly four years. Core inflation, without energy and food prices was 2.6% last month. If the war in Iran lasts very long, high fuel prices are likely to affect core inflation more strongly. https://apnews.com/article/inflation-prices-gas-federal-reserve-trump-bf00c3105d5da88a0b01d9107ed4ecee
Consumer sentiment has hit an all-time low as the war jacks up inflation. The University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers sentiment has fallen 11% so far this month. It’s down 9% from one year ago. Many of those surveyed blame the war for declining economic conditions. They also say inflation one year from now will be 4.8%, up a full point from an expected 3.8% in last month’s survey. Business sentiment fell even further – down 20% – 6 points lower than last April. Researchers note that 98% of this month’s surveys were conducted before the temporary cease fire was announced. https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/business/2026/04/10/april-2026-consumer-sentiment
Cease fire mediation talks are scheduled to begin tomorrow in Pakistan. But Iran said today that its country’s assets must be unblocked and a cease fire take hold in Lebanon before the talks can begin. https://www.reuters.com/
A federal judge today extended a temporary freeze on the acquisition of TV station owner Tegna by rival Nexstar. On March 27, Judge Troy Nunley in Sacramento issued an order that the assets of the companies remain separate pending a federal antitrust lawsuit filed by DirecTV. The deal closed March 19 immediately after the Justice Department and the FCC approved it. Eight states led by California have also sought temporary restraining orders to stop the merger. Locally, it would put three of San Diego’s six television stations under the same ownership – KFMB, KUSI and KSWB. https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-judge-extends-temporary-order-halting-nexstar-tegna-merger-2026-04-10/
KIA is planning to launch a pickup truck for the U.S. market by 2030. The fast-growing Korean brand currently sells about 850k units a year in this country. They plan to increase that to over 1m with 6.2% market share by 2030. Their new pickup truck, including a hybrid variant are expected to account for a large part of the increase. Kia entered the global truck market last year with a model called the Tasman. It’s not yet known if that name or any of its parts will be included in the new U.S. model. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/09/kia-pickup-truck.html
Well-timed bets by groups of anonymous traders on Polymarket may soon get attention from Congressional investigators. Associated Press reported Wednesday that at least 50 brand new accounts on the Polymarket prediction platform placed what turned out to be winning bets on the U.S.-Iran ceasefire, just hours or even minutes before President Trump announced it. They were the only bets made by these accounts. In January, an anonymous Polymarket user made $400k by betting that Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro would be out of office, hours before he was captured. Another account made over a half million betting the U.S. would strike Iran and that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would be removed from office just hours before the start of the Iran war. Critics are saying prediction markets are ripe for insider trading and that huge winning bets on geopolitical events minutes before they happen can’t be coincidence. https://www.npr.org/2026/04/10/nx-s1-5780569/betting-polymarket-iran-investigation-lawmakers
LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING
New this weekend at the movies, the romantic comedy “You, Me & Tuscany”, the horror mystery thriller “Hunting Matthew Nichols”, and another horror feature – “Faces of Death”, plus about ten limited releases including the documentary about “Democracy Now!”, one of the network shows carried on Rez Radio, titled “Steal This Story, Please!”. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/calendar/?ref_=bo_nb_di_tab
The Artemis 2 space capsule is scheduled for splashdown off the coast of San Diego at 5:07p today. The approximate location is midway between San Clemente and Catalina islands, about 50 miles offshore. You can see it live on NASA’s YouTube channel, and streaming platforms including Netflix and Prime Video. Coverage will begin around 3:30p. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/article/how-to-watch-the-artemis-ii-splashdown-live-today-what-time-is-the-landing-and-when-to-stream-194000715.html https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/california/can-you-see-the-artemis-2-splash-down-california/509-234017e2-8efa-40f5-a33b-2541a450f2e9
On this day in music history – April 10,
- 1962, former early Beatles bass player Stu Sutcliffe died. He’d stayed behind in Hamburg with his new German girlfriend when the group returned to England after working there the previous summer. Paul McCartney switched to bass to replace him. Sutcliffe died of a brain aneurism in an ambulance on the way to the hospital. He was 22.
- In 1965, with the British Invasion well underway, British groups dominated the top of the U.S. charts for seven consecutive weeks beginning on this day with Freddie and the Dreamers’ “I’m Telling You Now”, followed by Wayne Fontana’s “Game of Love”, Herman’s Hermits’ “Mrs. Brown”, and The Beatles’ “Ticket to Ride” making up the week’s top five.
- In 1967, Marvin Gaye completed recording his cover of “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”. Gladys Knight and the Pips also recorded a version of the song in 1967. Theirs was released first and peaked at #2. Marvin’s version wasn’t released for about 18 months. It remains the definitive one, topping the charts for seven weeks in December of 1969 and January of ‘70. Creedence Clearwater Revival did an 11-minute version of Grapevine on their Kozmo’s Factory album in 1970 with an edited single version peaking at #43 on the singles chart.
- In 1970 … one of the darkest days in music history. One week ahead of the release of his first solo album, 27-year old Paul McCartney issued a press statement announcing the split of The Beatles. John Lennon, who’d kept his much earlier decision to leave the group a secret for the benefit of the other three was furious. When asked for a comment about Paul’s announcement, Lennon replied, “Paul hasn’t left. I sacked him”.
- On the same day, at least one ray of hope. Elton John released his self-titled second album – the one that launched his career thanks to the breakthrough single, “Your Song”.
- In 1976, Peter Frampton was at #1 with “Frampton Comes Alive”, the best-selling album of that year and one of the biggest selling live albums ever. It stayed on the album chart for 97 weeks.
- In 1985, Madonna kicked off her first concert tour with three nights at the Paramount Theater in Seattle. Opening act was The Beastie Boys.
- In 1994, over 5k fans attended Kurt Cobain’s memorial service in Seattle.
- In 2007, the former home of Johnny Cash 20 miles northeast of Nashville burned to the ground. It was where he and wife June Carter wrote many of their songs, and entertained fans and U.S. Presidents. Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees had bought it four years earlier and was about to begin renovations when the fire struck.
Born on this day …
- In 1921, actor and singer Sheb Wooley who had the 1958 novelty hit “Purple People Eater”.
- In 1932, Nate Nelson from The Flamingos, whose biggest hit was 1959’s “I Only Have Eyes For You”
- In 1947, Jamaican singer and songwriter Bunny Wailer, who along with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh formed The Wailers – the group that brought reggae to the rest of the world.
- In 1959, singer, songwriter and guitarist Brian Setzer whose group, The Stray Cats revived rockabilly music in the early 1980s. He also leads the swing revival band the Brian Setzer Orchestra
https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=10&month=4
Here are some other celebrity birthdays and birthday anniversaries.
- Comedian Orlando Jones is 58
- Actress Daisy Ridley is 34
- Among those who’ve passed, actor Harry Morgan, whose extensive credits include movies like Inherit the Wind and The Shootist and TV’s December Bride, Dragnet, and as Col. Sherman T. Potter in M*A*S*H was born in 1915.
- Actress Liz Sheridan, who played Jerry’s mother in TV’s “Seinfeld” and the nosy neighbor in “Alf” was born in 1929
http://www.dementeddatebook.com/2080-date0410.htm
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WEATHER
Pala Weather – sunny with a high of 77 and winds gusting up to 20 miles an hour this afternoon … 30% chance of less than a tenth of an inch of rain tonight and tomorrow … mostly cloudy in the morning, clearing to sunny and 72 with winds gusting up to 20 miles an hour tomorrow … up to a half inch of rain 80% likely Sunday with a high of 66 … 30% chance of continued showers Monday morning, clearing to mostly Sunny and 67 in the afternoon … mostly sunny and 74 Tuesday … 78 Wednesday … 77 Thursday … overnight lows, about 52 tonight and tomorrow night … about 43 Sunday through Tuesday night … 45 Wednesday night
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